Chapter 12

‘Oh my God, I must have looked like a person with no politeness.’

I quickly pulled my hand down and put it on my lap.

I should be polite to my benefactor.

“You seem to be a nobleman, but I was thinking about whether or not you had an accident because your clothes were so dirty. Was it a car accident too?”

There was a dull sound from the side.

Poe, who has never taken his gaze from the book so far, suddenly covered the book.

He asked me back, saying he couldn’t believe it.

“… a car?”

“… is it not?”

Likewise, Arno, looking at me with his eyes wide open, said to Poe.

“That’s a good name. Because the car goes silently and automatically.”

“I see. It’s easy to understand at once, and it would be okay to use the product name as a car.”

“As long as you succeed.”

The voices of the two somewhat excited people rose.

Arno looked at me and explained the situation.

“The object doesn’t have a name yet, but if you’ve seen it before, I think you’re right. Excuse me, how did you know what it was?”

‘… do you mean it was an object that didn’t even have a name until now?’

I just reiterated what Arno had to say a little bit differently.

“… it looked like a carriage, but there was no horse.”

“So you mean you’re just guessing?”

Arno narrowed his eyes.

Did I look like an industrial spy?

“Well, you can say that. You said ‘If it succeeds’ earlier, so is it still in the development stage? Is the success unclear?”

I rolled my eyes and quickly turned away.

Poe shut his mouth tight, but Arno looked at him once and opened his mouth.

“Yes, now it’s just a novel invention, that’s just that. Actually, that thing… so, I’m interested in car development, so I personally paid for some money.”

He said ‘car’ and gently pulled the tip of his mouth.

When he smiles, his face looked several times brighter.

The scary atmosphere that was covering the whole body disappeared suddenly.

“I came to test the car today but it had no brakes, so we fell on the ground.”

Poe frowned on his eyebrows and nodded.

As I look now, his forehead has a blue bruise.

After a car accident, he was fell on the ground, and his clothes were torn.

I trembled as I remembered the accident I had been in.

Poe grumbled.

“It is said that the car could run faster than most carriages, but this is what happened. So does it make sense to spend money on something like that? I don’t know how much to trust the inventor and invest in it.”

“You have to invest unconditionally!”

Oh, I was excited without knowing and the words popped out.

Both men’s eyes looked at me at the same time.

Thanks to the memory of the world over there, I knew very well how big industry could be.

It is also an invention that helps the world.

“Rather, it is the feeling that I want to invest.”

“Hmm, you’re right.”

Arno folded his arms and leaned against the back.

He took a defensive stance and glanced above and below me.

“It’s interesting.”

Oops, is it a mistake?

Things like business and investment in this world were utterly in the domain of men.

I made excuses in a hurry.

“Oh, it’s not because I know the business very well, I just thought it was worth investing in something that wasn’t in the world yet.”

“Why are you going to the Laurent Dukedom? “

Arno suddenly replied with an unexpected question.

He raised his chin and sat in a rather lazy chair and looked down at me.

I said softly.

“I never said I was going to the Laurent Dukedom.”

“You did.”

“When am I?”

“At the restaurant earlier.”

When did I say that?

I frowned my eyebrows and tried to remember what I said.

‘… oh, I briefly told Larissa my plans for the future.’

But I must have lowered my voice.

I rebuked him with a sharp tone.

“You are not like a gentleman. Overhearing a private conversation. Isn’t it a virtue to pretend you don’t know even if you’ve heard it?”

“So you mean no? Where are you going if not to Laurent Dukedom?”

“That’s …”

I was speechless.

I couldn’t think that other people would ask for my destination, so I couldn’t even think of an excuse.

Uh, let’s just smile roughly.

I laughed out loud on purpose.

“It is true. I’m going to meet the Grand Duke.”

“Do you mean Grand Duke Laurent? What’s going on?”

What does that matter?

Anyway, even if I tell the truth, you won’t believe it, so I said to pretend it as a joke in a very light tone.

“My sister, Larissa is here, because she will be His Majesty’s fiancee in the future. With this appearance, he’ll fall in love with her at first sight.”

The Prince that is the Grand Duke will fall in love with Larissa at first sight in three years.

Arno opened his eyes wide and soon began to laugh out loud.

It was a laugh that seemed to be really fun.

An awkward smile appeared on Poe’s face who was sitting next to him.

“Is that so?”

He didn’t say much about it, but it sounds like a very funny joke.

Arno laughed happily, looked back and forth at Poe and me.

The three were smiling, but Larissa wasn’t moving in the same position she looked out the window before. Even though her name was mentioned during the conversation.

Is it so interesting to look outside the window?

“Excuse me for a moment.”

I ended the conversation with the two men and turned to Larissa.

“Larissa, how are you feeling?”

Fortunately, Larisa didn’t ignore me.

As she lowered her arms that were on the window, she slowly turned her head toward me.

“Do your head hurt or feel nauseous?”

Larissa rolled her eyes and looked at me.

She blinks her eyes a couple of times, and she turns her gaze back out of the window.

‘Well… I have to get used to this reaction.’

Still, it will be fine as long as I can’t hear her heart.

I whispered softly, adding.

“If you ever want to go to the bathroom, tell me right away, if it’s hard to say, just tap my arm and I’ll go with you.”

Larissa’s face, reflected in the window, seemed to be frozen and expressionless.

I sighed lightly as I watched Larissa’s back with her head covered by a bonnet.

‘I want to stroke her hair, but I can’t.’

She may be surprised or frightened if I touched her suddenly.

It was only last night when I just raised my hand to point to a handkerchief with cookies, but she was terrified and trembled.

“It looks like you care for your younger sister a lot.”

Suddenly Poe said.

When I turned around, there was warm energy in his brown eyes that can be seen through his glasses.

I couldn’t figure out what to answer.

Maybe my expression was a little weird.

Marcia never cared for Larissa.

In fact, she hardly ever met her.

‘She sent someone to hit her until she shed tears.’

Originally, my plan was to escape by myself and to eat and live well by myself.

However, it was so pitiful and regrettable that this young child would be abused for three more years, so I just brought her out impulsively.

‘And I am going to leave her to her future husband…’

When I didn’t answer, Poe said while looking at Larissa with a gentle glance.

“You seem to be a child who hides a lot of thoughts.”

“She is not feeling well.”

I added the lie Igor had said earlier.

“It’s not like an incurable disease of having to take medicine every day. She just got a big shock in her heart… so she just needs a little care… she’ll be fine.”

I have no idea how many years or decades it will take to get out of serious trauma.

In the end, all I could believe was the ending of the original.

‘In the end, she will live happily ever after marrying the prince.’

It was like that in a fairy tale.

So it won’t take up to several decades.

‘Perhaps what Larissa needs is the love of the prince.’

As in the original, Grand Duke Laurent will cover it well.

At least I wanted to believe so.

“Anyway, she’ll get better soon if she meets the Grand Duke.”

I added it as a joke.

“I’ll help you get inside the Grand Duke’s mansion when you get to the Dukedom.”

The end of his voice trembled a little as if holding back laughter.

“Ha ha ha, thank you.”

“No, I’m not kidding, I’ll really be there.”

Huh? Did you hear the guess I made earlier?

‘Are they people who work for the Grand Duke?’